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Your commission did not end with your maternity to Christ, but as your mystical Spouse, the Holy Ghost, leads the Church, you too, spiritually adopt children and lead them to Christ through the Sacraments of the Church. It is by the Sacraments, namely Christ in the Holy Sacrament of the Altar, that the validly baptized, the ability to conquer sin. Your son has become food for souls in a state of grace, giving them the ability to remain and grow in grace.
God the Father chose to have His Son be brought into the world by your 'fiat', so now you are not only an example of holy obedience, but the single, greatest advocate to those who truly wish to follow him. For our Lord said, "He who says he loves me yet fails to keep the commandments, is a liar and the truth is not in him." And he says, "Unless you eat of my body, you do not have life in you," just as the body must consume earthly food in order to thrive.
